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I was thinking maybe something similar to Joomlas dashboard. A page where you would have icons for the main options of the CMS. Like an icon for adding a new page, a new blog post, templates icons, settings icon and so on. That way the admin section would have been more accessible. If there would be a such thing in a consideration i would love to make a mockup for it.

So essentially a graphical representation of the menu on the admin header? If that's so, you could really build your own quite easily by just creating a new admin handle/view "dashboard" and add your icons to that. You could even redirect to that dashboard view after an admin login if you wanted.

That will give you a really simple "dashboard" type look. Whenever you want to add a new action just check what the link is using the menu system, add it to the href, change the label and find an appropriate icon.

If you want something even more simple that you can easily add things to, let me know and I can write a full blown Dashboard app for you.

I can envision a mini dashboard that could slide down from under the toolbar too, accessible without leaving the current page. It could offer one-click options for adding pages and posts, and maybe pinning often-used apps or even individual screens to it too. Could even pin handlers that act as little widgets to display bits of data, like sparklines from the Analytics app for example. Possibilities... :)

@jbroadway
I sorta was thinking the same thing. Basically icon hot links to most often used items in apps and easily added an subtracted from the toolbar. Although that is quickly moving into gearing towards end user friendly rather than a "developer" geared framework if that makes sense. That being said... Mini floating toolbar would be awesome.

Not quite up to Gii functionality, but hopefully a good start :) I figure CRUD is something that needs customizing beyond the basics anyway, but starting off with not having to punch in all that boilerplate sure helps.

I am thinking of adding to it, but haven't even gotten it into the documentation yet... Would be nice to be able to do things like this: